Celtic Festivals

RTE’s Website Brainstorm: The Irish Celtic Festival of Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. It occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum slant away from the Sun and it happens twice in each hemisphere at the peak of Winter and Summer. Both the Solstices, the Seasons, and the […]

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Naturally Good Health Magazine: Cold Dark Winter, Bright Silver Linings

Many of us dread the Winter months and this year there are the added difficulties of a worldwide pandemic, but there are silver linings throughout this time if we only search for them. Time to take stock and honouring our aging. In ancient times this season was the domain of the wise old Crone or

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RTE’s Website Brainstorm: The Irish Celtic Festival of Samhain

Hallowe’en celebrated on the night of 31st October is a joyous revelry of fancy dress, sweet treats, wild games and bonfires for those young at heart. Delve a little deeper and one might question the symbols of dead souls and ghosts with a morbid fascination for horror stories and masked creatures. The eve of the Western Christian feast

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